Pod#143 - Marium Hosein - Content, Parenting, Validation & Reality Checks!

Marium Hosein is on the show! You know her from her super popular Instagram account where she's always ready to dish out everything from recipes, to parenting updates, to glam wedding dispatches, all the way to real life's ins and outs. She brings her mahaul-raising vibes to the show to talk about all of this and more!   Things discussed in this episode:   00:00 Intro  02:07 Where EXACTLY does Marium live  06:17 Growing up all over Pakistan because she was an army kid  10:11 Where is home, and expats romanticizing Pakistan  18:18 Getting serious on social media in late 2019, and then COVID arrives  32:23 Her relationship with the audience, as the audience went from 2500 to 90k  38:23 Realizing the potential trap of chasing audience validation  47:56 How her sponsored work began, and how the Pakistani and International markets differ  57:59 Looking at hiring people, her work split between US & Pakistan  1:02:30 Valuing her own brand, trying balance real life with social media and product development  1:07:05 How do her kids feel about her social media work, and how does that make her feel?  1:10:31 Food talk! What does she like, and Karachi’s food scene - Xanders, Wang Wang, sheermal  1:20:25 Marium has a couple questions about us and the podcast scene  1:28:58 The immense pressure on content creators to have OPINIONS about ISSUES  1:38:15 Jinn story!  1:41:12 Outro   LINKS:  Marium's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariumhosein/  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Thanks to our sponsor Manscaped - Check out the Performance Package 4.0 at https://Manscaped.com and use our offer code! * Get 20% off + free shipping with the code TPR at manscaped.com.   * That’s 20% off + free shipping with the code TPR at manscaped.com.  Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!   Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpodSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupperRizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkharSarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan